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Sutter Health, a California-based network of hospitals and doctors, knowingly destroyed massive amounts of evidence that were relevant to a lawsuit that accuses the not-for-profit system of anticompetitive practices and price-gouging, Chad Terhune reports for California Healthline. Sutter said it made a "mistake," but a judge said Sutter was, at best, "grossly reckless."

Why it matters: It's a damning revelation against a large hospital system, and it's worth watching to see if there will be any penalties. Hospitals and doctors have consolidated rapidly over the past decade, which experts say has contributed to rising health care costs.

The GOP may be heading for more trouble with its legislative agenda — this time with an unpopular tax bill. A compilation by Chris Warshaw of George Washington University of various polls shows that the plans to rewrite the tax code are only slightly more popular than the Affordable Care Act bills that narrowly failed — and both are among the least popular legislative proposals of the last three decades.

Reproduced from a chart by Chris Warshaw, assistant professor of political science at George Washington University; Chart: Axios Visuals

The federal government unveiled a new proposal late Thursday that would make some rather large changes to Medicare Advantage and the Part D drug program in 2019. The 713-page rule covers a lot, but there are two nuggets worth highlighting.

The Senate Finance Committee's markup of the tax bill yesterday fixated on new tables from the Joint Committee on Taxation showing that, even before the lower individual rates expire, people with lower incomes would pay higher taxes.